Ease of extending to existing and new use cases

Business demands are constantly changing and evolving, and a well-designed data lake provides scalability not just for the storage and compute needs of existing use cases but also in supporting new processing modes to meet emerging unseen scenarios. In other words, it is agnostic of the specifics of the industry vertical or use case. Exploratory data analysis, machine learning, and business analytics can all work from the same view of the data. New tools and frameworks can be layered in, and as long as the data does not have to move around, it provides a solid base for data personas to focus on their specific use case goals instead of having to solve common infrastructure-level issues over and over again, increasing their productivity and the agility of use cases getting to production. Delta is an open format and, once curated, it is available to a host of other tools using connectors. The following section talks about some popular connectors...